John Hunt was supposed to fly to Hurghada in Egypt with eight members of his diving club after winning the luxury trip at the Dive Show last October.

It Manager John, 42, said: "This is our prize, sitting in the pub at Gatwick. It's a joke. It's taken so much organising for all of us to get the time off and we've been looking forward to it for nearly a year.

The competition winner, from Calne, Wiltshire, said: "It looks like we might just go home instead."